• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I guess I’ll link this and ask for specifics, because I’ve observed quite the opposite.

    Given you seem to have taken your quote about personally getting Biden into office seriously, I think it’s pretty reasonable for anyone to be questioning your take here.

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      8 months ago

      There’s plenty to dislike vaush for, but they always go for the dumbest shit.

      I can even start em off. He never does debate prep so if he’s presented with a fact or statistic he doesn’t know, he forms his idea of how he thinks it should work /an explanation that fits his worldview and argues that point then looks up data to back it after the fact. It comes across as super weak, especially for a guy who acts like some supreme lord of intellect.

      But then again, knowing that would actually involve engaging with his content. It’s much easier to clip him out of context and call him a pedo.

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        8 months ago

        The guy is certainly far from perfect, but I think he’s pretty reasonable overall, and that the complains above are nonsense.

        He certainly slowed up on the debate prep over time, but he’s also basically stopped debating. From what I understand, his rationale was that you can’t get across all statistics, and that the people he was debating weren’t meaningfully backed by the data in any case so it’s fairly easy to find and debunk those syats/studies on the fly, which he frequently did. I don’t think it negatively affected his performance all that much.

        It’s a valid complaint to make, though I don’t personally think it’s particularly material, and certainly has nothing to do with the nonsense complaints that were made above.

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          8 months ago

          Oh absolutely. In fact I started watching vaush because I like debates, but Sam seder’s style was really not my jam and nobody else vibes with me. Like destiny is rhetorically effective, but cedes so much ground to actual nazis that he’s hard to watch. Vaush will hold them down on the premises they throw out and expect to be accepted and it’s amazing to watch them squirm.

          It’s sad he barely debates anymore and I also don’t give a shit about his fashion arc.

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          8 months ago

          Oh imperialist expansionism forced Russia to invade a soverign country huh?

          But no go ahead and keep purity testing, see how that works for you.

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      8 months ago

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